- Richard W. Hamming Medal
Richard W. Hamming Medal is an award given annually by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the international organization, for 'exceptional contributions toinformation sciences ,information systems andinformation technology .' The medal is named aftermathematician Richard W. Hamming .Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients
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1988 -Richard W. Hamming
*1989 -Irving S. Reed
*1990 -Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth L. Thompson
*1991 -Elwyn R. Berlekamp
*1992 -Lotfi A. Zadeh
*1993 -Jorma J. Rissanen
*1994 -Gottfried Ungerboeck
*1995 -Jacob Ziv
*1996 -Mark S. Pinsker
*1997 -Thomas M. Cover
*1998 -David D. Clark
*1999 -David A. Huffman
*2000 -Solomon W. Golomb
*2001 -A. G. Fraser
*2002 -Peter Elias
*2003 -Claude Berrou andAlain Glavieux
*2004 -Jack K. Wolf
*2005 - Neil J.A. Sloane
*2006 - Vladimir I. Levenshtein
*2007 -Abraham Lempel
*2008 -Sergio Verdu ee also
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List of medals
*Prizes named after people External links
* [http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?pageID=corp_level1&path=about/awards/sums&file=hammingsum.xml&xsl=generic.xsl Richard W. Hamming Medal] -
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